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The time post graduation after earning a Bachelor’s degree in visual arts often is followed with the question, “What Next?” How do we blend studio practice with practical needs like making a living supporting oneself and maybe a family. This work reflects the time of transition right before or just after leaving school.

Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement

Carrillo performed a role that so many first generation Californians play: of translator, storyteller and holder of culture. Though he came of age when the Chicano movement reached its peak, his artistic response to the struggle was not rage but the reverse, a reverence for his Latino roots, a joy in the practice of his art and music, and a respect for the life force within everything. Shot on location in the desert and small pueblos of Baja, in the barrios of Los Angeles and in forests of Santa Cruz, Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement will weave the trail of this artist as he crosses borders and boundaries.